CD changer to HTPC conversion (Kenwood REMIX)

[pcpimper1989]

Ok I know I stole this idea from "sloppyc", but its a good idea and I had an old Kenwood CD changer I got for free a few years back. Well resently it died and I thought "What can I do with this thing cause I don't want to just trash it". Well I have found the answer. so earlier I striped out the guts and I took the factory two wire removeable plastic powercord gromet and resized it to fit a standard three wire computer powercord. I want to make if look as much like the factory CD changer as possible. Lastly I like to thank "sloppyc" for this awsome idea.

[Drum Thumper]

:pics:

[pcpimper1989]

:pics:

I know but my camera took a crap while trying to take pic's of the CD changer

here's a pic I slavaged from the camera
http://i568.photobucket.com/albums/ss122/tractorracer1989/SANY0006-1.jpg

[pcpimper1989]

Ok here's my plan...

http://i568.photobucket.com/albums/ss122/tractorracer1989/SANY00062.jpg

I want this Blue-ray burner where the red circle is...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136181

and where the yellow rectangle is I want this...

http://i568.photobucket.com/albums/ss122/tractorracer1989/yhst-39083765508394_2117_151146019.jpg


http://www.xoxide.com/aerocool-fp01-multifunction-panel.html#


P.S. thanks Drum Thumper... I'm still trying to figure out how the img thing works

[pcpimper1989]

hi everyone,

It's been a few months and I did work on "Project HTPC (Kenwood REMIX)", but not a whole lot. Anyway, my house flooded on April 16, 2011 and we had four feet of water in the ground floor. Well my parent's PC tower sat on the floor and was turned "ON" at the time the house flooded and so the motherboard is fried. My parents said throw it out and that's when the gears started turning. the PC was a three years old HP desktop and had a multi card reader and the "HP Pocket Media Drive Bay". So I salvaged those things from the case and here's what I came up with...

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/4136/sany0015ex.jpg
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/1893/sany0016n.jpg
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/7011/sany0017a.jpg
http://img852.imageshack.us/img852/4954/sany0018o.jpg
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7117/sany0019uy.jpg
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/4726/sany0021z.jpg

I'm going to mold the card readed/ power switch and LED/ HDD activity LED onto the top of the case. the Pocket Media Drive Bay is going in the right side of the disk tray opening.